For child care providers and school maintenance staff

As a child care provider or school maintenance staff, you can take simple steps to ensure the safety and well-being of the children in your care.

How do I know if my school or child care facility has lead paint?

Find out when your school or child care facility was built. If the facility was built before 1978, assume it has lead paint unless it has been tested by a certified renovator or lead inspector/risk assessor and found not to have lead paint.

Remove all belongings from the work area or cover them in plastic before the work starts.

Once renovation, maintenance and repair work is complete and cleaning has been performed, have a certified lead professional take dust wipe samples to ensure that the work area is safe for re-occupancy.

When renovation, repair, painting and maintenance work on painted surfaces is scheduled, keep all children and pregnant women out of the work area until clean-up and dust wipe samples have confirmed that the area is safe for re-occupancy.

More information on how to safely paint or renovate a school or child care facility